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  2. Chilling requirement - Wikipedia

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    The chilling requirement of a fruit is the minimum period of cold weather after which a fruit-bearing tree will blossom. It is often expressed in chill hours, which can be calculated in different ways, all of which essentially involve adding up the total amount of time in a winter spent at certain temperatures. [1] [2]

  3. Climate fiction - Wikipedia

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    The genre frequently includes science fiction and dystopian or utopian themes, imagining the potential futures based on how humanity responds to the impacts of climate change. Climate fiction typically involves anthropogenic climate change and other environmental issues as opposed to weather and disaster more generally.

  4. Ecofiction - Wikipedia

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    Ecofiction (also "eco-fiction" or "eco fiction") is the branch of literature that encompasses nature or environment-oriented works of fiction. [1] While this super genre's roots are seen in classic, pastoral, magical realism, animal metamorphoses, science fiction, and other genres, the term ecofiction did not become popular until the 1960s when various movements created the platform for an ...

  5. List of fictional plants - Wikipedia

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    Genesis trees: Trees located in the world of Legaia from the video game Legend of Legaia. They can keep a large area free of the Mist. They can keep a large area free of the Mist. Laganaphyllis simnovorii : A carnivorous cow-like plant found in The Sims series of games, commonly known as the Cowplant.

  6. Definitions of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    "A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...

  7. 'Feels like' temperature: What does it really mean and how ...

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    The science behind 'feels like' temperature The answer to "feels like" temperature, according to the National Weather Service , has to do with wind, or wind chill to be more specific.

  8. Fact or fiction: Does cold water boil faster? Water's boiling ...

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    Cold water does not boil faster. Water boils when it reaches its boiling point of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, 100 degrees Celsius or 373 degrees Kelvin.

  9. Science in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science in science fiction is the study or of how science is portrayed in works of science fiction, including novels, stories, and films. It covers a large range of topics. Hard science fiction is based on engineering or the "hard" sciences (for example, physics, astronomy, or chemistry).